Friday, January 17, 2014
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National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencieshttp://www.naccrra.org/(Newsletter: http://capwiz.com/naccrra/mlm/signup/ )
The National Association of Child Care's website is known as Child Care Aware of America. The main focus of this website is to ensure that all families have access to quality and affordable childcare. This objective is achieved by providing training, resources and best practices to Child care Resources and Referral agencies along with offering childcare and parenting information and resources to families. The organization's influence in promoting national policies in the Early Childhood Education field is what attracted me to the website. I'm amazed each week at the different bills, and legislative laws that are passed in reference to education in the early childhood field. Congress voted on a new spending bill on 1/14/14 for increased funding for early childhood eduction. This information is something I would not have known about if it wasn't for the Child Care Aware website. This weeks news letter spoke about setting the stage for the young children in 2014. Setting the stage for the children in 2014 con sit of improving the quality of childcare, increasing early head start child care partnerships, making preschool available for all and empowering parents. The information on empowering parents was great food for thought in reference to this weeks topic of the changing demographics and diversity in families. A proposed plan of increased maternal, infant and early childhood home visiting programs will help ensure that all children are healthy and prepared for school and life . I look forward to reviewing next week's information to build my knowledge on early childhood resources, and the politics in education.
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Hello Shirley,
ReplyDeleteThis was a great post to read. It is very sad an unfortunate that all children do not have the resources to attend and early childhood center, but knowing their are so many people who are so interested in seeing our youth succeed. I think I am going to subscribe to this link as well. Thanks
Thanks Stacey!
DeleteShirley,
ReplyDeleteReally enjoyed your post about improving early childhood and empowering parents with knowledge to not educate their children but themselves. Make sure children are health and well rounded preschooler. Thanks for sharing!
Toshiko Pinckney
Thanks Toshiko!!
DeleteShirley,
ReplyDeleteReading your post made me want to go and check out the website and see what all it has to offer. When it comes to providing children with educational services at an early age, I feel that these types of services need to be fully funded in order to properly prepare children for their entrance into regular school. I also feel that this website would be very beneficial for parents who are seeking quality childcare services for their children. I believe that a lot of parents are not able to pay for quality childcare services in which a lot of children are missing out on the opportunity to begin learning in an educational setting as well as learning how to communicate and socialize with other students. Last year in my county the headstart program had to end earlier than normal due to no funds. This meant that a lot of children were sent home and their learning opportunities were stopped. I feel that this was valuable time lost and that a lot of the children needed that extra time in the programs.
Shorlone,
DeleteIm sadden by the fact that the Head Start program ended! I wonder sometimes what these governement officals are thinking when they choose to snatch education away from our world's most valuable resource The CHILDERN, I feel that we are heading to a Spartan like society where we have all the brute strength and no common sense or brains!